File photograph of Shakib Al Hasan.© AFP
A gaggle of individuals attacked Shakib Al Hasan’s followers throughout a protest in Dhaka on Sunday amid tight safety, an eye fixed witness stated. Shakib Al Hasan needed to retire from Check cricket by enjoying the sequence towards South Africa in Bangladesh. The BCB responded positively to his request and included him within the squad towards South Africa. However he was suggested by the Bangladesh authorities to not enter the nation resulting from safety causes whereas in transit by means of Dubai on his means again to Bangladesh from the US.
Followers had been protesting outdoors the cricket stadium in Mirpur for a number of days to protest towards Shakib’s ban from enjoying the farewell Check in Bangladesh. On Sunday, a gaggle of individuals instantly attacked them with sticks. At the moment, the military and regulation enforcement personnel who have been there introduced the scenario below management by blowing whistles.
Notably, Shakib formally joined the Awami League social gathering in 2023. He filed the nomination from the Magura-1 parliamentary seat as an Awami League candidate to contest within the 2024 Bangladesh basic election, which he gained.
Two months in the past, a student-led motion ousted Bangladesh’s Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, after weeks of protests and clashes that killed over 600 individuals. Hasina, 76, fled to India on August 5 and an interim authorities led by Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus was fashioned.
Awami League leaders and supporters, together with Sheikh Hasina, are going through dozens of circumstances of allegedly committing crimes in the course of the July-August rebellion. Sakib Al Hasan is without doubt one of the accused within the circumstances however he wished to say cricket goodbye after the take a look at sequence towards South Africa.
BCB introduced the appointment of former West Indies batter Phil Simmons as the top coach of the nationwide males’s cricket group after suspending Chandika Hathurusinghe, resulting from misconduct.
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